Cliche Kiwi Moment

My sister is currently in Japan. We've been trying to call her sinse Christmas morning, but to no avail (I was under the impression that telecommunication glitches were a thing of the past with fibre optic cable, but it appears not).

Anyway, my mother finally got through this afternoon, and walked out across the back lawn with the cordless phone to where my father and I were stacking firewood. My parent's 10ha section is mainly bush, but it neighbours on to a sheep farm. Where we were stacking firewood over looks the farm.

According to my cell phone it is currently 28 degrees (C) in Kumeu, with sun blazing down. It was snowing in Japan.